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Essar Batool, Ifrah Butt, Munaza Rashid, Natasha Rather, Samreena Mushtaq
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On a cold February night in 1991, a group of soldiers and officers of the Indian Army pushed their way into two villages in Kashmir, seeking out militants assumed to be hiding there. They pulled the men out of their homes and subjected many to torture, and the women to rape. According to village accounts, as many as 31 women were raped.
Twenty-one years later, in 2012, the rape and murder of a young medical student in Delhi galvanized a protest movement so widespread and deep that it reached all corners of the world. In Kashmir, a group of young women, all in their twenties, were inspired to re-open the Kunan-Poshpora case, to revisit their history and to look at what had happened to the survivors of the 1991 mass rape. Through personal accounts of their journey, this book examines questions of justice, of stigma, of the responsibility of the state, and of the long-term impact of trauma.
State ViolencePolice InvestigationKashmirGender StudiesIndiaEnglish224 pages
Ather Zia and Javaid Iqbal Bhat (editors)
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Essays, reportage, poems and stories by Kashmiri writers on life under conflict and occupation.
AnthologyEssaysKashmirIndiaEnglish
Ather Zia
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An ethnography of the mothers and half-widows of Kashmir's disappeared, and of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons: how grief became a form of political resistance.
EthnographyWomen's ActivismKashmirIndiaEnglish
Farah Bashir
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A memoir of growing up in Srinagar in the 1990s: curfews, crackdowns and fear, seen through the eyes of a teenage girl.
MemoirKashmirIndiaEnglish
Urvashi Butalia (editor)
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Kashmiri women, and the writers who listened to them, on living through the conflict: violence, loss, displacement and the search for peace.
AnthologyWomen's VoicesKashmirIndiaEnglish
Shahnaz Bashir
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A novel about a mother in 1990s Kashmir whose only son is taken away and never returns, and her search for him: the story of the "half mothers" of the disappeared.
NovelKashmirIndiaEnglish
